196 Alejandra Dubcovsky, Information Exchange in the Early Southeast




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Summary: We live in an age of information. The internet provides us with 24/7 access to all types of information—news, how-to articles, sports scores, entertainment news, and congressional votes. But what do we do with all of this knowledge? How do we sift through and interpret it all? Alejandra Dubcovsky, author of Informed Power: Communication in the Early South, takes us through the early American south and how Native Americans, Europeans, and enslaved Africans acquired, used, and traded information.